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"Look here, if you please," piped Baby, "I have brought some one to see you." When he turned round, Jem recognized him at once. "Eh! Eh!" he said. "What! What! Who's this, Tootsicums?" Baby's manner became very acid indeed. "I shouldn't have thought you would have said that, Mr. Claus," she remarked. "I can't help myself down below, but I generally have my rights respected up here.
"Play me something from the opera The Brave and Charming General Anisimov, or, A Hubbub in the Coolidor. My regards to the little political economist Zociya. A-ha! Then you kiss only at Easter? We shall write that down. Ooh-you, my Tomalachka, my pitty-itty tootsicums!" An untranslatable pun on Economochka, a diminutive for "housekeeper." Trans.
I should like to know what sane godfather or godmother would give one the name of 'Tootsicums' in one's baptism. They are bad enough, I must say; but I never heard of any of them calling a person 'Tootsicums." "Come, come!" said S.C., chuckling comfortably and rubbing his hands. "Don't be too dignified, it's a bad thing.
You must go to the old English maidens is that it? maidens who wear helmets on their grey hair done so" he put up his brown hands, and pretended to twist up a tiny top-knot at the back of his head "and who stroke the heads of the dragomans sitting there at their feet, what they call their 'tootsicums, and telling them thousands of lies.
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